Rogers: In signing the China deal, the Vatican is taking an enormous risk

Benedict Rogers, East Asia Team Leader at at the human rights organization CSW and a Senior Fellow of the Religious Freedom Institute writes at the Catholic Herald on the risks of the new deal struck between the Vatican and the Chinese government. As Rogers wrote in the days just before the announcement, “China is currently engaged in the worst crackdown on Christians in decades.”

Read more of his perspective on this development: In signing the China deal, the Vatican is taking an enormous risk